Self hosted gives you an identity, its no longer a blog, its your address, so chickgm, worldofmatticus, etc.

Domain hosting is typically < £8 a year for a domain, £2-3 a month for hosting (you can get as low as £0.38 a month).

Self hosting is more beneficial, everything can be stored on your server, you have control over directories, can add things like lightbox easily. Its far more self contained and controlled by you, google can't one day say no more blogger.

I will have a self host in about 40days once I can move my domains to a different registrar, and I typically have a lot of domains parked, its cheap and easy to do if you find a name you want. Self hosting is also cheap and easy, for example I have a wordpress version of my blog at http://2ndnin.com at the moment as I am thinking of migrating. Again I need to do a lot of setup and sort everything though to make it work so its private atm. Having hosting means I can store images and make sure the paths never change and no one does anti-hotlinking code (I eat the bandwidth costs, so if my blog ever gets as popular as google.com I may run out of bandwidth ),

There's a lot of limitations and that come with free hosts. I like to have the flexibility and resources self hosting brings because then I can use it for additional projects other than my blog (like plusheal.com for example!).

How much are you paying for your domain name per year?Zip, Zilch, Nada, free domain for life with my hosting provider

Why aren't you using a free host, like wordpress or blogger hosted.I started with multiple free hosts, and found limitations with each of them that zapped the "this is mine" feeling I wanted. With my domain, on my webspace, I can do anything I want, I can toss up a forum, a photo gallery, I have no limits on what kind of scripts I can use, and most importantly, that little space on the web is mine, and it has my name on it.

There's a lot of limitations and that come with free hosts. I like to have the flexibility and resources self hosting brings because then I can use it for additional projects other than my blog (like plusheal.com for example!).

QFT. Pretty much all the same for me. I'm self-hosted, pay about the same, and chose to go with self-hosting for precisely the same reasons. I like being "the boss" when it comes to my site, and I like that the only limitations are those of my imagination and coding skills.

Domain: $10
Hosting: Domain hosted for Free by a friend. I donate to his stuff though in return.

To really go at the blogging game serious, you really need to have your own domain. blahdeblah.com just immediately gives you more authority than blahdeblah.blogspot.com or wordpress.com. That being said, I can understand how it'd be scary to some since managing that stuff can be frustrating. (I've had to switch hosting companies 4 times this year alone)

Domain: $10Hosting: Domain hosted for Free by a friend. I donate to his stuff though in return.

To really go at the blogging game serious, you really need to have your own domain. blahdeblah.com just immediately gives you more authority than blahdeblah.blogspot.com or wordpress.com. That being said, I can understand how it'd be scary to some since managing that stuff can be frustrating. (I've had to switch hosting companies 4 times this year alone)

Yeah, I know that host switching game.

Last time was when they shut down my site for "excess resource usage"
whatever that means. It was pretty silly given the site they shut down,
which wasn't a blog. Their customer service completely poofed on me
when they shut it down, too.

But the flexibility of havng your own host just pwns. And with Fantastico
(on a cpanel host) you can get a blog set up from scratch in a minute or so.

On that note, if you do have your own host, back up your databaseon a regular basis! If your host poofs on you you'll be glad you did.

Greg

_________________The Azeroth Cookbook - Lots of WoW and some other stuff, but very little cooking.Got Warcraft - My boys' site. Lots of cool WoW guides, more fun to read than mine.

How many are using a free host, or self hosted blog.A free host, but I have it forwarding to my domain name. I use blogger, because it's good for those of us that aren't totally HTML savvy, but having the notoriety (if even a little bit) that comes with having a simple .com is something I prefer.

How much are you paying for your domain name per year?$10

Why aren't you using a free host, like wordpress or blogger hosted.I am, I just bought mine through Google, and they transferred all of my blog's DNS settings and whatnot over. It was very painless.

I use Blogger, though I do have a domain paid for and hosting lined up. jenimorton.com points to my blog right now. I am not html savvy, so instead of leaping into the mud puddles I so love to jump in, I'm stirring the pool with my toe first, testing the depth and temperature, seeing if I can handle it all by myself.

Domain plus hosting is 80 a year. I'm still thinking on it. That much money is a nice dinner out for the clan, or a full tank of gas.

Self hosted. $10/year for domain registration, $90/year for web space. I like the freedom, power, and flexibility of self hosting. I feel that it lets me give more to my visitors than I could have if I were still with Blogger.

As for a hosting company, Hostmonster.com has been PHENOMENAL (like Veneretio, I've switched hosts four times this year). BRK recommended them to me, and I couldn't be happier, especially after the NIGHTMARE that was Dreamhost.com. HM includes a free domain registration, live chat for support, an amazing array of tools within their control panel (better even than what I found at Dreamhost), and overall has been exceptionally stable. I can't recommend them highly enough.

I'm self-hosted now, although I did start out on Blogger. Blogger is great for getting started because it lets you focus on blogging, and you don't have to worry about all of the other things that come with running your own blog (domain registration, hosting, spam, etc.). But once I knew that I enjoyed blogging and wanted to do it for the long term, I switched over to my own domain.

I pay about $10 per year for my domain, and around $4 to $6 each month for hosting.

I'm now self-hosted for many of the reasons that the others mentioned. I like being in control of my own blog/site, I like having more options available to me, and I found Blogger to be too generic and inflexible.

There's a lot of limitations and that come with free hosts. I like to have the flexibility and resources self hosting brings because then I can use it for additional projects other than my blog (like plusheal.com for example!).

Lassirra wrote:

I like being "the boss" when it comes to my site, and I like that the only limitations are those of my imagination and coding skills.

I've been looking into getting a custom domain & host for my new blog. I went on ebay and found what i think is a really good deal. Fogcityhosting is offering package deals for very cheap. They have a year of hosting for $4 and up to 5 years for $11. Of course you'd still need to get a domain which shouldn't cost you more then $10 a year.

I'm probably gona make the purchase and i'll make a post on how their service is.

I use my own server hosting but it can be a pain to setup if you don't know much about computers.

I know Wordpress offer hosting and the ability to point any domain at your site there so an easy thing to do would be to setup an account with them and then just purchase the domain you want and set it up using their instructions to point to your site. Gets past the hassle of self hosting plus you get the benefits of your own domain name.

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